Description

Trailer for The Fifth Season.

Beautifully photographed in a palette of icy blues and cold earth tones, Peter Brosens and Jessica Woodworths appropriately chilling contemporary fable draws on traditional peasant folklore to chronicle what happens when Mother Nature turns her back on a small Ardennes village and simply refuses to let winter give way to spring.

As they do every year, the villagers  including newly cemented young couple Alice and Thomas (Aurélia Poirier and Django Schrevens)  gather for the traditional bonfire celebrating the coming end of winter, only to have the pyre refuse to catch fire. It soon becomes plain that this is not just a baffling, if mildly ominous, occurrence. Even though time passes, the season stays the same. Perpetual winter  with crops failing, starvation increasing and barbarity on the rise  becomes the norm and the locals grow more desperate by the day Spiked throughout with surreal visual touches and charcoal-black humor, Brosens and Woodworths eerie tale strikes home with the force and truth of the best kind of cinematic art.